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Biblical Marriage Part 3

pastor-jeff-smithJeff Smith

The very truths that I will preach about apply in many ways to those who are not married also. Let’s pray.

Lord, our God, we pray asking for the presence of Your Holy Spirit. That He would take Your truth and the principles of Your truth and apply them to every single heart, every life from the youngest to the oldest, whether married or not. We cry to You, that You would do this for Your glory, for the exaltation of Jesus Christ, and for the good of own souls and marriages. We ask these mercies in Jesus’ name. Amen.

In previous messages I started with some presuppositions that we must have. I would like to remind you of two.
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Biblical Marriage Part 2: The Grace of God and Obedience

pastor-jeff-smithJeff Smith

Let’s ask God for His blessing upon our time together. Let’s seek Him in prayer.

Our God, we ask that You would give us minds and hearts that are eager to receive Your Word; that You would work, by Your Spirit, that every one of us would believe and embrace Your Word, would love Your Word, and then would, by Your grace, go forth from this very church building determined to obey Your Word. In all of these things, we ask that Christ would be honored, that Christ would be glorified, and that Christ would be the supreme love of each of our hearts. We ask for these mercies, in His name, amen.
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Biblical Marriage, Introduction

pastor-jeff-smithJeff Smith

So, let’s pray, asking for God’s help for all of us as we hear His Word. Let’s seek Him in prayer.

Our great God, we do thank you for the Lord’s day. We thank you that You have given us this privilege to worship You. We thank you that You have given us this privilege to hear Your Word. We confess, Lord, that we need Your Holy Spirit to come and take Your Word, and bring it home with grace and power to each one of our minds and hearts and lives. That we would not be hearers of the Word only, but we would be hearers and doers of the Word of God. We ask, our gracious Father in Heaven, that You would give Your Spirit to all of us, from the youngest to the oldest; that we would know You speaking to each one of us. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

Well, I’ve been asked here to preach some messages from the Word of God. On two previous occasions, here in North Bergen, I’ve preached messages regarding the Bible’s teaching about marriage, and your pastors believe that it would be wise and good for me to come here again, not just today, but, God willing, next Sunday, and then perhaps some other times in the near future, in order to preach some of these messages—actually all of these messages, that’s forty—but to preach messages concerning the Bible’s teaching about marriage. They’ve asked me to go back to the very beginning. This is a series that I’ve done at Trinity Baptist Church, so they asked me that I would today go to the very beginning. So that’s what I’m planning to do.
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God’s Design and Plan for Husbands in the Light of Redemption (2)

pastor-jeff-smithJeff Smith

Well, I would like you to turn in your Bibles to Ephesians chapter 5. I would like to read verses 22-33 of Ephesians 5.

“Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, being Himself the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for it, that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, that He might present the church to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. Even so, ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loves his own wife loves himself; for no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ also the church, because we are members of His body. ‘For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ This mystery is great; but I speak in regard of Christ and of the church. Nevertheless, do you also severally love each one his own wife even as himself, and let the wife see that she fear her husband.”
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God’s Design and Plan for Husbands in the Light of Redemption (1)

pastor-jeff-smithJeff Smith

Let’s pray and ask God to be with us as we study His Word.

Our gracious God in Heaven, we thank You that You see all things and You know our innermost thoughts. We pray, O God, that You would come and use Your Holy Word to search us, to try us, and to show us the realities of our own sins and need of Jesus Christ. We pray, Father, that You would use Your Word for the good of everyone in this auditorium, from the youngest to the oldest. May no one sit and think, “This does not apply to me.” Take Your Word, our sovereign God, and apply it graciously and powerfully to each one of our hearts and souls. May Jesus Christ receive all praise, glory, and honor. In His name we pray, amen.

When a tsunami sweeps across a country, devastation is the consequence, and probably everyone here remembers seeing the pictures of that tsunami that swept into Japan just over three years ago. The destruction was unbelievable. However, with the passing of time, reconstruction takes place, as it has there in Japan, and order and beauty is restored little by little. The fall of man into sin, Adam’s disobedience to God’s clear, simple command, was a spiritual and practical tsunami. Death and depravity descended upon all of the natural descendants of Adam, because of Adam’s sin: his disobedience. It was a spiritual tsunami, but through the gospel of Jesus Christ, anyone who believes in Christ and turns away from his or her sins have their tsunami-devastated life reconstructed by the grace of God, by the work of the Holy Spirit, and holiness replaces sin and depravity by degrees. Until one day we shall be forever with the Lord, and we shall have sin no more.
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